Giant Realistic Flying Tiger − A static photographic cutout of a tiger that Uncle Grandpa rides on to get around.His catchphrase is "I'm like a modern-day Thomas Einstein except a brazillion times better!" Gus to do his chores, so uncle Grandpa could Cream him.
He also is meant to cheat, like for instance in “Leg Wrestler”, he trained Uncle Grandpa, and forced Mr. In "Tiger Trails", he claims to be a black belt in Italian Karate, but he wears the black belt over his eyes instead of around his waist. Pizza Steve is featured in his own cartoon shorts entitled "A Slice of Life with Pizza Steve", which usually involve Pizza Steve exaggerating his abilities. Despite this, he pretends to be very popular and a hit with women. He is depicted as extremely vain, troublesome, and often brags about how cool and awesome he is, which annoys his friend Mr. Pizza Steve (voiced by Adam DeVine, Pendleton Ward in "For Pete! Love, Pen") − Pizza Steve is an anthropomorphic pepperoni pizza slice with sunglasses and a member of Uncle Grandpa's crew.His catchphrase is "You're just sayin' that to get under my skin." Gus's favorite parts of the day is 9:00 PM, which is his designated bathroom time, and during that period he likes to take a bubble bath and read for an hour. He is older and more mature than Uncle Grandpa. He is unfazed by most of Uncle Grandpa's eccentricities and seems to have an even temper despite his roommates, but often loses his temper, especially where Pizza Steve's antics are concerned.
He is a large, serious, yet somewhat grouchy green were-dinosaur who was Uncle Grandpa's rival in "Leg Wrestler", but eventually became his friend and bodyguard. Gus (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) − Mr. Gus and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger (bottom)
Main characters from the series from left to right: Uncle Grandpa and Belly Bag, Pizza Steve, Mr. He greets everybody using “Good Morning.” Gus, a static photographic cutout of a tiger named Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, and an anthropomorphic pepperoni pizza slice named Pizza Steve. He drives/lives in a UG-2000 model robotic RV known as the Perpetual Persistence and is accompanied by a talking red fanny pack named Belly Bag, a green dinosauroid named Mr. He is a clowny sort of person who sometimes eats inedible objects (paper, and mostly books). The children he visits have a problem of their own and Uncle Grandpa tries to help them through a series of chaotic and surreal misadventures. Uncle Grandpa, a magical shapeshifting humanoid, stops by children's houses every day to see how they are doing. Each 11-minute episode is presented in a unique format, consisting of a main seven to nine-minute story, some short bumpers typically composed of a quick visual joke, and an original short that focuses on the show's side characters.Ĭartoon Network renewed the series for the fourth and fifth seasons: first splitting the second season (of 52 episodes) into two halves, which respectively became the second and third season, then also dividing in half the already announced third season into the fourth and fifth season (of 26 and 23 episodes, respectively), which served as the final seasons. Creator Pete Browngardt has cited the work of cartoonists Don Martin, Gary Larson and Robert Crumb, as well as Golden Age–era animators such as Tex Avery and Max Fleischer when it came to developing the style of the show. The show is a surreal action-adventure comedy that relies extensively on visual gags and catchphrases. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios. Uncle Grandpa is also a spin-off of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, which was in turn a spin-off of the Cartoonstitute short.
It is based on Browngardt's animated short of the same name from the unaired Cartoonstitute. Uncle Grandpa is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network.